From: Evgeny Kolesnikov <evgenyz@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Antialiased fonts patch.
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:48:54 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1265957334.2292.14.camel@EK> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e59e6971002112221u656186c5u564acee1d4e0f092@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 00:21 -0600, richardvoigt@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
> > On 26 January 2010 11:04, Evgeny Kolesnikov <evgenyz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>> At first I was completely against antialiasing support because of
> ...
> > In fact I think that 4bit antialiasing should suffice. 16 tones of the
> > same color should be more than enough for most cases. Still I am not
> > sure that it will make the rendering really faster than 8bit AA.
>
> By antialiasing it seems that you mean alpha channel.
>
> Has anyone considered instead supersampling in the x-direction? This
> also results in anti-aliased text but in addition yields more accurate
> kerning and on LCD displays can be used for sub-pixel rendering. I'd
> say 8x supersampling, but since LCD displays have three components
> (R,G,B) 6x might be better.
Sub-pixel AA is in progress.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-12 6:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-21 13:19 grub-mkfont and DejaVu font problems Evgeny K
2010-01-21 13:28 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-22 11:46 ` Antialiased fonts patch Evgeny Kolesnikov
2010-01-22 12:53 ` BVK Chaitanya
2010-01-22 13:22 ` Evgeny Kolesnikov
2010-01-26 9:11 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-26 10:04 ` Evgeny Kolesnikov
2010-01-26 11:59 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-26 19:44 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2010-02-11 2:58 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
[not found] ` <1265957146.2292.11.camel@EK>
2010-02-12 9:50 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-02-11 13:30 ` Michal Suchanek
2010-02-12 6:21 ` richardvoigt
2010-02-12 6:48 ` Evgeny Kolesnikov [this message]
2010-02-12 7:08 ` Evgeny Kolesnikov
2010-02-12 7:20 ` Bruce Dubbs
2010-02-12 7:52 ` Evgeny Kolesnikov
2010-02-12 9:15 ` Michal Suchanek
2010-02-12 9:55 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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